Local Operations Manager (m/f/d) - Northern Netherland
Key Skills
Job Description
As a Local Operations Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of wind farms across your assigned region. Working closely with service teams, customers, and internal stakeholders, you will contribute directly to operational performance, team development, and long-term customer satisfaction. Whether you bring proven leadership experience or are ready to take the next step into operational management, this role offers an opportunity to grow within one of the world's leading renewable energy companies.
YOUR TASKS
- Lead, coach, and develop Service Technicians and Lead Technicians while fostering a strong culture of safety, accountability, and teamwork
- Ensure the safe and efficient execution of maintenance, repair, and service activities across an assigned portfolio of wind farms
- Collaborate closely with customers and internal stakeholders to deliver contractual commitments and maintain high service quality standards
- Drive operational performance by monitoring turbine availability, service delivery metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Support workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, and competency development to build high-performing service teams
- Ensure compliance with HSE standards, company procedures, customer requirements, and relevant industry regulations
- Depending on experience level, contribute to or take ownership of operational budgets, resource planning, KPI management, and business performance
YOUR PROFILE
- Technical qualification in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, renewable energy, or a comparable technical discipline
- Experience within wind energy, technical services, utilities, manufacturing, marine, or another operational and field-based environment
- Initial leadership experience or a proven track record in managing operational teams and people development
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trusted customer relationships
- Excellent planning, prioritization, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities in a dynamic operational environment
- Good understanding of health, safety, and environmental standards with a strong commitment to safe working practices
- Fluency in English and preferably German or Dutch, willingness to travel regularly within the assigned service area, and a valid driving licence
Core Responsibilities
You will lead and develop service teams to ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient maintenance of wind farms across the region. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders to meet contractual commitments while driving operational performance and maintaining high service quality standards.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a technical qualification in engineering or a related field and possess experience in operational or field-based environments. Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills are essential, along with a commitment to health, safety, and environmental standards.
About Nordex Group
Industry: Renewable Energy Equipment Manufacturing
Company size: 10,001+ employees
The development, manufacture, project management and servicing of wind turbines in the onshore segment has been the core competence and passion of the Nordex Group and its more than 10,900 employees worldwide for 40 years. As one of the world's largest wind turbine manufacturers, the Nordex Group offers high-yield, cost-efficient wind turbines that enable long-term and economical power generation from wind energy in all geographical and climatic conditions. The focus is on turbines in the 3 to 7 MW class, and the Group’s comprehensive product portfolio offers individual solutions for both markets with limited space and regions with limited grid capacities. A global service network, of around 380 service points throughout 30 countries, delivers service quickly to keep our systems running smoothly. The Group covers the needs of all customer segments within the global wind market, from large energy suppliers to SMEs operating power plants. With more than 61 GW of installed capacity worldwide, Nordex Group systems deliver sustainable energy throughout more than 80 per cent of the world’s energy market (excluding China). Nordex SE is listed on the TecDAX and MDAX of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ISIN: DE000A0D6554). The headoffice of the company, with the Management Board and central corporate functions, is located in Hamburg, while the legal entity is registered in Rostock. At production facilities in Germany, Spain, Brazil, the US, and India, the Nordex Group produces nacelles, rotor blades and concrete towers. The Group also maintains offices and branches in more than 30 countries.